@inproceedings{geiger1991advances, author = {Geiger, Dan and Heckerman, David}, title = {Advances in Probabilistic Reasoning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence}, year = {1991}, month = {July}, abstract = {This paper discuses multiple Bayesian networks representation paradigms for encoding asymmetric independence assertions. We offer three contributions: (1) an inference mechanism that makes explicit use of asymmetric independence to speed up computations, (2) a simplified definition of similarity networks and extensions of their theory, and (3) a generalized representation scheme that encodes more types of asymmetric independence assertions than do similarity networks.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/advances-probabilistic-reasoning/}, edition = {Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence}, }